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3 unusual facts about Leopold Mozart


Hoffnung Music Festival

:Concerto for Hose-pipe and Strings (3rd Movement only) by Leopold Mozart

Leopold Mozart

Following a year's delay, he moved to Salzburg to resume his education, enrolling in November 1737 at the Benedictine University to study philosophy and jurisprudence.

Natural trumpet

A few transitional composers, such as Michael Haydn, Leopold Mozart and Johann Molter wrote concerti for natural trumpets in the early Classical era.


Anna de Amicis

She was a favourite of both Mozart and his father Leopold, and created the role of Giunia in Lucio Silla (Milan 1772).

Betulia liberata

It was commissioned in March 1771 by Giuseppe Ximenes, Prince of Aragon, while Mozart and his father Leopold were on the way home to Salzburg from their first journey to Italy.

Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine

Under the leadership of musicians such as Johann Stamitz and Carlo Grua, the orchestra of the Kapelle was lauded by such musicians such as Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Deutsche Singmesse

Other composers who wrote works in the form of the Singmesse include Leopold Mozart and Franz Xaver Gruber.

Maria Theresia von Paradis

Leopold in a letter from Vienna simply described it to Nannerl as a ‘glorious concerto’ and said it had been written for Maria Theresia von Paradis ‘for Paris.’ His description suggests that neither he nor Nannerl knew it already; if this is so, it must have been a later one than K.453, which seems to have been the newest they had in Salzburg at this date.


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